Search: Scottish syndicate purchased land 1901 for £5000

You might be able to escape the Scottish weather by travelling thousands of miles around the globe, but, as the Faculty of Advocates’ Bill Frain-Bell (pictured) discovered, other reminders of home are more difficult to shake off.

Martin Darroch Harper Macleod is the only Scottish practice shortlisted in the “Regional Firm of the Year” category at the The Lawyer Awards 2017.

Malcolm Combe Malcolm Combe dispels myths surrounding Gaelic signage.

Alan Inglis The President of the Family Division of the English High Court, Sir James Munby has given his second judgment in two important cases concerning Scottish children placed for adoption in England.

A consultant engineer who was seriously injured after he slipped and fell on a patch of black ice in a car park has had a £125,000 damages claim against a Scottish local authority dismissed. Alan Cairns suffered “life-changing” injuries as a result of the accident on Saturday 1 December 2012 in

Graham Matthews Scottish solicitor advocates and Scottish solicitors based outside Great Britain will be invited to nominate themselves as Law Society of Scotland Council members before noon on 30 August.

John Muir A group of 58 former employees of a leading independent Scottish construction company that went spectacularly bust have won their two year battle for redundancy payments.

Kenny Rose A team of Scottish-based lawyers at CMS have helped a world-leading yacht services company complete its successful listing on London’s AIM exchange.

Andrew Sutherland Revenue Scotland has released data today showing that commercial revenue from the Scottish Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) fell 31 per cent in June compared to the same month in 2016.

Hamish Lean Hamish Lean details a case in which it was held that the Scottish ministers' rule formalism regarding a subsidy scheme was unjustified.

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David Buchanan-Cook David Buchanan-Cook, head of oversight at the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission, explores the importance of professionals managing customer expectations.

The University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Legal History is celebrating the release of Karen Baston's Charles Areskine's Library: Scottish Lawyers and their Books at the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment (Brill 2016) with a reception next month. Charles Areskine might be better known to legal schol

Scotland’s most senior judge will deliver the opening keynote address at the Law Society of Scotland’s Annual Conference. Lord Carloway will address delegates on the future of the Scottish court system at Leading Legal Excellence: For the greater good on Tuesday 19 September in Edinburgh. In “

The Scottish Government is wrong to maintain application fees for bankruptcy, writes Alan McIntosh of Govan Law Centre. The Scottish Government’s decision to reject calls by Govan Law Centre for a fee waiver for consumers wanting to go bankrupt, is not only disappointing, but ultimately likely to